The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-07-22
AN AND DEMOCRAT BIOOMsBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY, PAL

half dinner | ever ate in hotel.
had piut of Pommery too, for which
! paid the usual two dollars. | smok
ed cigar after dinner in the smoking
car, which, with its stained oak bool
cases and brackets, its bric-a brac or
the shelves, and its softly cushioned
wicker chairs, was more like com
Portable library in some city house,
than the interior of car running
across the country at a speed that a
few years ago no railroad dared even
to attempt. I had some letters TO an
swer, and so l sat down there at a
desk and answered them. II was at
loss for the spelling of a word, a
dictionary was at hand, and if | want
ed an address, all / had to do was ask
the porter for directory of the city in
which the lost party resided. Before
had finished writing, it was after nine
o'clock, and we had passed Fort Wayne
and were laundering on towards Crest.
line, our next stopping place.
GAS | was tired | turned in early,
and l slept as soundly as though l
were in my own home. l slept far in
to the morning, and when awoke and
went into breakfast, we were some
where between Pittsburg and Altoona
After breakfast went into the barber
shop and"
"The barber shopl" interrupted his
companion,' Where did you find bar
Der shop?'
"On the train of course. O, / didn't
speak of it before, did /? Well that's
another feature exclusively the prop
erty of the Pennsylvania's New York
and Chicago Limited. Yes, sir There
is a barber shop there, and a good bar
Der too. l was shaved without a
scratch, had my hair trimmed, and
felt as fresh as field daisy in June.
| found book in the library that in
terestel me until lunch time, and just
as | got through luncheon we arrived
at Harrisburg, promptly on schedule
time-1.55. There got the New
York papers, looked over the grain
markets, wired ali order to my partner
to buy 5000 bushels of July wheat for
my account, and settled down with a
cigar between my teeth for an hour or
two with the news of the day. About
four o'clock l took my satchel, made
my way to the bath-room---O yes !;
there's bathroom, too--had delight
fully refreshing bath, put on clean
clothes, and donned this black and white
attire which you now see. Before l
had finished, we had stopped at Broad
Steet Station, in Philadelphia, for five
minutes, aud were shooting out over
the SchuylkiIl on the last stage of the
journey. Another delicious dinner oc
cupied another hour and more. When
| went into the smoking car, we were
somewhere between Trenton and New
Brunswick, and though there was no
perceptible swaying Of the train CT
joltlng either, was told shortly after
wards that we had made the run of
twenty-five miles between those two
points in exactly twenty seven minutes.
Pretty fast going that, Ell Before 1
had finished my second cigar we were
in Jersey City. took the upper ferry,
arrived on the New York side at sharp
seven o'clock, jumped into cab aud
walked into the church to night in time
to get good seat forward, from which
l witnessed my friends marriage from
start to finish.
"My verdict consequently is that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company's new
Vestibuled Train beats the world.
There's not another road on the face of
this globe that could have afforded
such service as that, aud am willing
to make any bet on it tina. you choose
to propose"
Then the Hon. Wolfe Rahill made
the announcement that he intended to
take the Limited back to Chicago at
nine o'clock this morning, and bade
his friend good night.